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Congress passes a $1.7T spending package including a bill banning TikTok on federal government devices, but fails to pass many aggressive bills targeting tech (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Congress passes a $1.7T spending package including a bill banning TikTok on federal government devices, but…
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A 1974 US privacy law that prevents the sharing of citizens' data between US agencies is forcing the government to use and pay millions annually to data brokers (Alfred Ng/Politico)
Alfred Ng / Politico: A 1974 US privacy law that prevents the sharing of citizens’ data between US agencies is…
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aiming to appease the US government, TikTok offers to operate more of its business at arm’s length and allow more outside scrutiny by Oracle and others (Reuters)
The year we’ve had: Office Integrator in 2022 — We began 2022 with the goal to make office editor integration…
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Amazon has invested $75M so far to help Ukraine, including getting 10PB of government data out of the country in suitcase-sized Snowball Edges for AWS uploading (Russ Mitchell/Los Angeles Times)
Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times: Amazon has invested $75M so far to help Ukraine, including getting 10PB of government…
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Despite SBF claiming he stepped away from running Alameda, shifting blame to CEO Caroline Ellison, the US government argues that SBF was still calling the shots (Justin Baer/Wall Street Journal)
Justin Baer / Wall Street Journal: Despite SBF claiming he stepped away from running Alameda, shifting blame to CEO Caroline…
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Lawmakers in Greece approved a legislation banning commercial spyware after the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was accused of surveillance (Derek Gatopoulos/Associated Press)
Derek Gatopoulos / Associated Press: Lawmakers in Greece approved a legislation banning commercial spyware after the government of Prime Minister…
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